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Corporate social media will never allow that, because their owners don’t want community politics, they want capitalist politics.
Exactly, that is why decentralized or federated social media, or its descendants - what it evolves into - is so valuable.
Yup, which is why two communist software developers created Lemmy.
In hindsight this is not surprising at all, I would argue that it is the social duty of all developers to assist with such things.
I'm so disappointed with the state of tech and the way the "FOSS movement" as flawed as it can be at times is so weak.
Not surprised though, it was just a matter of time (about a decade) after the capital started really flowing that everything was required to go to shit.
I do not understand all the changes in tech, so much new happens each day. Some changes each day are good. But like you imply, much bad happens daily. I say daily because millions contribute.
But change is the only constant here. And a state of constant flux, historically, is not helpful to the ruling classes. Its not that helpful to the workers either. But the stage is not set for one to win over the other yet.
We have a few decades before nano technology ensures the wealthy will win. It will be a challenge between that, and climate change. Surely we are in the most decisive moments of human evolution, and world history for life. There are so many ways to fail, and only a few to succeed.
Shame that lemmy has basically been taken over by neoliberals
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Not really, for reasons I don’t have time to get into rn.
Reddit API and it consequences
i wonder if it is though, considering that fact that we have captured federated instances like .world or discord that have as much dominance in all the fediverse islands like the lemmyverse as something like reddit or facebook has on all of centralized social media.
even if we were to somehow remove the influence of neoliberal controlled platforms on the fediverse; the rest of the fediverse doesn't even mention currently active movements like the "music festivals" taking place all over the united states that centralized social media is struggling to suppress due to the sheer volume of supporters.
Yes, and the way to solve this is to develop the platforms more. I tend to think of the fediverse as a work in progress, and will be maybe the grandparent of better networks that have less failings. Certainly it is a necessary step.
We can help by both supporting the current iterations: either in funding or programming or just using it. And thinking of the next steps